A historic reduction in the nation’s foreign-born population in the first seven months of President Donald Trump’s second term is due to record-low levels of illegal immigration as well as migrants returning to their home countries, researchers say.

Current Population Survey (CPS) analysis by Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler of the Center for Immigration Studies details that from January through August of this year, the foreign-born population has dropped by 2.2 million across the United States.

Significantly, the illegal alien population has declined by 1.6 million over that period, indicating that the Trump administration’s increased interior immigration enforcement has had swift and large results.

Camarota and Zeigler say that although some analysts could chalk up the numbers to “

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